Pitch

One Sentence

The Earth is being taken over by the technology of big businesses.

Synopsis

For this next project, an anthropomorphic Earth is basking in the quietness of it's solitude. While doing this, a fleet of what seem to be UFOs begin slowly descending upon and surrounding the Earth. The UFOs turn out to be space crafts for big named companies such as Apple, Sprint, Motorola, and HP. As they come closer and closer to the Earth, giving it no means of escape, a huge shadow is casted over them. To the Earth's surprise , it is a satellite. The satellite along with the surrounding ships fire beams of green light at the panicking Earth, sending it into a brainwashed daze (fade to black). Fading in, we find the Earth hooked and wired to a huge computer being fed information through the wires as it repeats the words "Technology is now...technology is the future...technology is forever." While repeating these words, silhouettes of towers sprout from the Earth's background, a sign that it is a slave to it's corporate captors.

Intent

-To show how big business brainwashes society into thinking we need their gadgets to go on in this world.

-Aesthetics-- This piece will be hand drawn using PS and/or AI and imported into AE.

One on One Feedback: Put an emphasis on the big named corporations so it'll be easier for audience to identify with them.

Establish character design so that they are easily identified.

Maybe have big buildings rising from the Earth after it gets brainwashed to to hit on the big business aspect.

Structure Analysis

Scene 1: Space and Solitude- The Earth is enjoying the peace and tranquility of the solar system without a care.

Scene2: Unexpected Fleet of Oppression-- A fleet of UFOs owned by big businesses descend upon and corner the fearful Earth.

Scene 3: Mothership...--A shadow is casted over the Earth and the surrounding fleet.

Scene 4: ...and Mind Sweep--The shadow, revealed to be a satellite, and army of spacecraft corner and brainwash the Earth.

Scene 5: Now and for Ever--The Earth, now hooked and wired to a giant computer, is nothing more than a mindless zombie fit to please it's captors.

Scene 6: The Mark--Silhouetted towers sprout from the background of the Earth; a brand for it's big time oppressors.

Self Critique

Well for this revision I made a list of the suggestions made by fellow students and went back and made those. Doing this, I think it did add a little more flavor to this piece. In it I added more emotion to majority of the speech bubbles to keep the audience attention since there isn't any sound; I made the patient cringe during his transformation to add more emotion to a somewhat emotionless character; also going back to add my credits 1 second of black at beginning and end.

Creative Commons Research

With the use of strategies such as copyrighting and trade marking, which seem to be working against us as artists; a "shared culture" seems like more of a pipe dream. Creative Commons, as far as there philosophy and mission, states that their intentions are to make a cooperative setting between you and the internet while using the full extent of the laws of copyright, trade marking, etc. This will enable many users, no matter the profession, to share there works freely without the hindering of copyright or trademark laws. But with this freedom comes a price. If one is willing to use the work of another, those at Creative Commons ask that you give credit to whoever you share with or be willing to share your own material in exchange for using someone else's. So in a way I see these as a barter system-like strategy, if you allow me to use something of yours, then I'll return the favor letting you use something of mine; allowing a wider range of ideas to be expressed and recognized.

Bring Me Back To Life V3

Bring Me Back To Life from Kenneth Walker on Vimeo.

Mid-Term Project Feedback

-Bring down and give motion to thumb pushing down syringe

- Slow own blood travel

- Make speech bubbles more dynamic and comic book like

-Adjust scale size to make characters less pixelated

-Have the patient twitch in pain to make transformation more convincing

-Take out staff of Mercury (Red Cross is enough)

-Make patient look more like Ronald Reagan

Assignment Write Up

Synopsis: A patient finds out from his doctor that he is suffering from a symptom known as Progeria. With no known treatments, the doctor takes drastic measures and use untested and maybe unstable nano-bots (represented by ones and zeros) in his attempt to help his patient. The nano-bots do the opposite of what the doctor intended, eating away and taking over the patient’s body revealing a metallic skeleton; whose glowing eyes only spell trouble for the doctor.

Intent: An insight on what the far future may hold as society rapidly develops technology for the advancement mankind and how what we have created to help us, may take a turn for the worse and rebels against us.

Problems: Attempted to do a flowing walk cycle, which would then have the doctor walk into the hospital. But the character became too choppy, so the idea was scrapped leaving the scene with the doctor already standing next to the payient as he breaks the news to him

Bring Me Back To Life

Bring Me Back To Life from Kenneth Walker on Vimeo.

Pitch For Mid-Term.

For the mid-term project, I'm thinking of reusing what i've learned from the last two projects, making use of the disintegration effect.

In this next piece, a man, whose human body is weakening, is placed in the care of a hospital for treatment. As he lies in bed, he is approached by a doctor who informs him that there is only one cure for his condition; an untested sierum that may have dramatic effects on the body.

As the man lies on the bed he is injected with nanobots (represented by 1s and 0s using what I've learned from the text project) by the doctor through a sirenge. His skin burns away slowly revealing metallic insides. As this is happening, a heart rate monitor, starting from a flatline, will be increasing it's pace until it is at a steady heart beat; ending with a close up of the face (now a skull) with the eyes slowly revealing a red glow.

Proj 4 Write Up

Proj. 4 March 3

Energy Orb/Tears of Blood/Man To Machine

-A blue ball of energy floats in space

-A girl is crying as she is over taken by her inner demon whoe insanity turns her tears to blood.

-Through our overt dependency on technology, wed get a look into what is yet to come as a man transform into machine itself.

-Trying my hand at one of the tutorials to get a feel of the different effects

-Wanted try transforming some one to enhance the work done in class

-Using the 'disintegration' effect was an attempt to do better with tansforming one character into another.

My main tension were some of the effects not working as well as I had intended or not working at all.

i really had fun doing this project;

I felt i learned a lot of the keys and techniques thanks to the tutorials from 'copilot.' The Disintegration effect semed to my favorite one to do and i might incorporate it into my next project if possible. I do think I've could've slowed it down a bit though. The CC Mercury seemed to be the hardest of the keys to use.